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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1887
Page
2
Detailed methods for starting early tomatoes in boxes and hotbeds, preparing soil and sand beds, and care for squash and beans. Instructions cover watering, planting dates, pest control for striped and black squash bugs, borer remedies, and field practices. Includes notes on turnip pots, soil richness, and succession sowing for continuous yields.
A horticultural note surveys heirloom and modern pea and bean varieties. Rawson's Clipper leads for earliness and size, while Burpee's Early, Minimum, and American Wonder are discussed for flavor, yield, and growth habit. Dwarf wax and pole beans receive attention for pod quality, with farmers noting frost resistance and cooking qualities.
Practical guide by William Falconer on choosing sturdy stock, ordering from reputable nurseries, and planting widely spaced large holes. Advises fall or spring planting depending on climate, handling roots carefully, using large root balls, soaking after planting, and avoiding manure at planting. Emphasizes mulch, staking, and summer shade for new transplants.
W. D. Philbrick outlines horseradish cultivation from soil preparation to harvest, detailing deep plowing, ridge planting, and sets, with fall and spring ploughing, catch crops, and careful crop rotation. He notes yields of four to six tons per acre on good land, the crop’s winter storage, and the difficulty of eradicating it as a weed.
The piece argues for genuine early potato varieties to minimize planting delays, praising Early Ohio as the earliest reliable option and criticizing familiar types like Beauty of Hebron or Early Rose. It stresses the need to select plump fresh seed tubers, as warmed seed exposes strong eyes that sprout poorly, underscoring seed quality for a prompt crop.
The article advises planting tubers when stalks are inch long, using whole tubers when possible, and applying small amounts of nitrate of soda to advance harvest by a few days. It notes the planting window: March 1 to April 15 in the middle Atlantic States south of New York City, and May for northern growers, with emphasis on early plantings to avoid late freezes.
A compact catalog of preferred garden varieties across vegetables. Highlights include Asparagus The Colossal, Beans Valentine Crystal White Wax and Golden Wax, Beets Bassano and Long Rome, Cabbages Hendersons Early Summer with Winningstadt and Wakefield, and Drumhead Savoy. Lettuce Loston Curled Hendersons Summer Hanson. Cucumbers Early Russian White Spine Long Green. Tomatoes Cardinal Arlington Conqueror Perfection.
Country Gentleman outlines a practical method for smallholders to produce a home supply of strawberries. It covers plant selection from reliable local growers, bed layout with matted rows, spring planting timing, careful handling of transplants, weed control, mulching materials, and feeding strategies. The article advises against inferior stock, stresses row straightness, and notes pruning and runner management to maximize vigor and yield.
A discussion on sweet potato growing before the New Jersey Horticultural Society reviews hill culture versus surface ploughing, soil preparation, and fertilizer use. Growers favor elevated dry soils, hill planting, and limited nitrogen rich fertilizers to avoid excessive vines and uneven tubers.
Mr Burt notes spring ploughing could avoid frost effects on subsoil. Experiments compare large hills to smaller ones, showing larger hills yield nearly double with bright short potatoes. Lettered farmers urge fall manure, thorough mixing, shallow ploughing, and careful soil prep shaping potato form for marketability.
On the farm barley sown with grass seed aids sod formation and yields timely hay while preserving land. Barley harvest at the milk stage gives more straw value than oats, and barley straw proves superior for fodder. The author compares yields on three acres, noting oats produced 724 bushels and barley 73, with barley favored for feeding and soil health.
The article discusses seeding alsike clover with red clover and grasses like timothy or orchard grass to improve forage in dry seasons. It recommends early spring sowing, preference for orchard grass in some cases, and notes optimal seeding months, seed rates, and cost comparisons with red clover.
A source notes early hay from alsiks before full bloom provides a supplementary crop and aligns with honey flows. It argues alsike is the best plant yet for beekeepers, suitable for hay, pasture and honey, with potential coastal cultivation.
Practical guidance on soil preparation with coarse divisors to prevent compaction, plus feeding regimes for lambs and cows. Advises warm, nourished care for cows, optimal weaning ages, and careful pasture turnout. Discusses dairy economics, butter quality, oleomargarine impact, and future ensilage reforms.
The Danish War Department reports a thoroughly satisfactory repeater model using an 8 millimetre cartridge. Copper coating and cartridge powder yield high velocity with minimal lead wear, maintaining accuracy after 50 to 100 shots. Shot grouping at 1200 feet remains tight, with half the shots within a belt six inches wide and eight inches spread between extremes. At 8200 feet the dispersion grows to 2 1/2 feet and 25 6 feet respectively.
The piece argues that newspapers must require writer names on letters to guard against forgery. It warns forged signatures misrepresent readers and invite public misdirection. It notes there is no law against forging names on communications and stresses the press as the public's servant.
A Telegraph reporter reports multiple rumors on Broad and High streets about a fortune found under the Providence Post Office stairs. Accounts vary from a few thousand dollars to Captain Kidd’s treasure, while others claim a banker’s wallet and a dropped nickel explain the commotion.
In November 1887 Jim McNaney and Irvin Boyd join William T. Hornaday in a buffalo hunt on the Great Western Plains. They kill four cows, skin and skeleton them, then pursue a large bull that Hornaday ultimately shoots with a single shot. The hunt yields the 20th buffalo for the Smithsonian expedition as a biting northwest storm looms, forcing a rapid push back to camp.
No fewer than fifty answers have been received to the railway puzzle published earlier in these columns. The public clearly delights in ingenious problems, and this one has drawn widespread participation. A professor of mathematics might describe it as a challenging poser.
A historic rail yard challenge asks how to turn a westbound locomotive on a Y track to face east while leaving three freight cars in their original positions. Several readers propose step by step maneuvers on main and Y tracks, with cars moved and repositioned to complete a 180 degree turn without using poles or ropes.
A long OCR list outlines prices and titles for numerous magazines and journals offered through a promotion. It notes that no publication will be sent for less than a year and that one magazine per address is permitted, with readers asked to specify the issue to begin subscriptions. The page includes many named publications and pricing figures in a dense catalog style.
Orrin Hamilton, the popular conductor on the western division of the Boston and Maine railroad, has the longest continuous service on the roads leading from Portland and possibly in New England. He entered service aboard the road as baggage carrier.
A veteran conductor, serving 39 years and seven months, has spent most of his career on the Portland to Boston through trains. He takes pride in a flawless safety record, with no passenger deaths or injuries on trains under his charge.
Ex assessor Ben F. Palmer of Boston recalls a June day in Hingham when Captain Mose Pettengill sought the artist who found the coolest spot near Nye's wharf. The captain finally located him under a fish house, smoking contentedly on a barrel as townsfolk watched. Palmer affords this tale as a bygone bit of Hingham history.
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